The Tunnel Tiergarten Spreebogen is a 2.4 km long road tunnel in

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which connects

Berlin Hauptbahnhof Berlin Hauptbahnhof () (English: Berlin Central Station) is the main railway station in Berlin, Germany. It came into full operation two days after a ceremonial opening on 26 May 2006. It is located on the site of the historic Lehrter Bahnhof, ...

and Tiergarten. It is known as Tiergartentunnel. Tiergartentunnel_Einfahrt_M-C-Str

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Each section has two lanes and a narrow standing strip. At the northern end there are access roads to Minna-Cauer-Straße and

Invalidenstraße Invalidenstraße, or Invalidenstrasse (see ß), is a street in Berlin, Germany. It runs east to west for through the districts of Mitte (locality), Mitte and Moabit. The street originally connected three important railway stations in the nort ...

. The southern access roads are on

Tiergartenstraße Tiergartenstraße, or Tiergartenstrasse (see ß), is a street in the Tiergarten district in central Berlin, the capital of Germany. The street runs east-west along the southern edge of the Großer Tiergarten park from Kemperplatz and Ben-Gu ...

and the Reichpietschufer / George C. Marshall Bridge. It is part of the

Bundesstraße 96 The Bundesstraße 96 (B 96) is a federal highway in Germany. It begins in Zittau in Saxony, close to the border triangle between Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic, heads north through Berlin and ends in Sassnitz on the island of Rügen in ...

and the Inner Ring Road (Innenstadtring). It was opened on 26 March 2006. Construction began in 2002. A similar tunnel is the

SMART Tunnel The Stormwater Management And Road Tunnel (SMART Tunnel), E38, is a storm drainage and road structure in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and a major Malaysian National Projects, national project in the country. The tunnel is the longest stormwater drai ...

in Kuala Lumpur.

In popular culture

In 2004 – two years before it commissioned, the tunnel was used to film parts of ''

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''.

External links

Tunnel Tiergarten Spreebogen – TTS
(PDF; 1,9 MB) Map of the Tunnel Tiergarten Spreebogen

{{Authority control Road tunnels in Germany Moabit Roads in Berlin Buildings and structures in Mitte